Sanitation Lead - 2nd Shift

Nom Nom•Nashville, TN

About The Position

Nom Nom is seeking a Sanitation Lead to support sanitation execution and food safety in its kitchens. The role coordinates and verifies sanitation activities, supports compliance with food safety programs, helps ensure equipment is ready for production, and works across Operations, Maintenance, Q&FS, QSI, and external contractors. The Sanitation Lead also provides technical guidance and training support to sanitation associates and contractors and serves as backup to the Sanitation Manager during absences. Success in the role includes strengthening Master Sanitation Schedule execution and verification, improving sanitation effectiveness and startup readiness, reducing repeat findings, supporting environmental monitoring and food safety investigations, improving equipment readiness, and strengthening cross-functional communication and accountability.

Responsibilities

Execute and verify Lockout/Tagout activities required for sanitation and cleaning.
Support compliance with FSSC 22000, HACCP, EMP, sanitation, and pest control programs; serve as a technical resource for sanitation and food safety requirements.
Coordinate and verify execution of the Master Sanitation Schedule, perform sanitation inspections and effectiveness verifications, and support equipment startup readiness and release after sanitation.
Assist with development of sanitation procedures and SSOPs; identify deficiencies and drive corrective actions.
Execute environmental swabbing protocols and collect ATP, microbiological, and environmental monitoring samples.
Assist with trending and analyzing sanitation performance data, identify recurring issues and emerging risks, and provide backup support for Q&FS technician activities when required.
Monitor equipment tear-down and reassembly for sanitation and partner with Maintenance on equipment preparation.
Identify equipment conditions affecting cleanability, food safety, or hygienic design; assist with sanitation-related preventive maintenance and deep-clean events; support cleaning validation of equipment and facility infrastructure.
Support sanitation, food safety, quality, and root cause analysis activities; participate in continuous improvement and verify effectiveness of implemented changes.
Support investigations and resolution of environmental monitoring findings and track assigned corrective actions through completion.
Accompany contractors performing HVAC cleaning, facility cleaning, infrastructure sanitation, and specialized sanitation projects; ensure compliance with GMP, food safety, and safety requirements.
Coordinate work between Operations, Maintenance, QSI, and external vendors.
Facilitate communication among Operations, Maintenance, Q&FS, QSI, and contractors; support production shutdown planning, sanitation execution, audit preparation, and audit support.
Provide technical guidance and training support to sanitation associates and contractors; serve as backup to the Sanitation Manager during absences.
Improve MSS completion and verification, sanitation effectiveness, startup readiness, environmental monitoring results, equipment cleaning performance, sanitation handoffs, and cross-functional collaboration.